Wine, Wineskins, & the Gospel
Luke 5:33-39
Last Week – Call of Levi
Where is Grace going?
• Campus Church
• Biblical Counseling Center
– Corporate Prayer Tonight 7pm
– Q&A Session February 20th
Why are we headed there?
Luke 5:33-35
33
And they said to him, “The disciples of John
fast often and offer prayers, and so do the
disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and
drink.” 34 And Jesus said to them, “Can you
make wedding guests fast while the
bridegroom is with them? 35 The days will
come when the bridegroom is taken away
from them, and then they will fast in those
days.”
Luke 5:36
36
He also told them a parable: “No one tears a
piece from a new garment and puts it on an
old garment. If he does, he will tear the new,
and the piece from the new will not match the
old.
Romans 7:6
6
But now we are released from the law, having
died to that which held us captive, so that we
serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in
the old way of the written code.
John 1:16-17
16
And from his fullness we have all received,
grace upon grace. 17 For the law was given
through Moses; grace and truth came through
Jesus Christ.
Luke 5:37-39
37
And no one puts new wine into old wineskins.
If he does, the new wine will burst the skins
and it will be spilled, and the skins will be
destroyed. 38 But new wine must be put into
fresh wineskins. 39 And no one after drinking
old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is
good.’ ”
Luke 5:37-39
37
And no one puts new wine into old wineskins.
If he does, the new wine will burst the skins
and it will be spilled, and the skins will be
destroyed. 38 But new wine must be put into
fresh wineskins. 39 And no one after drinking
old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is
good.’ ”
Wineskin – Evangelical Ministry Model
• Provide a place – build a “church”…
• Proclaim propositional truth (gospel)…
– Good preaching…
– Good music…
– Good programs…
How much wine is making its way to the
culture?
“People are looking to see if when we say
we have truth, it is possible for this truth
not only to take men’s souls to heaven,
but to give all of life meaning in the
present time, moment by moment.”
- Francis Schaffer
New (technically-old-but-since-its-notused-much-anymore-it-seems-new)
Wineskin
• The Whole Church
• Taking the Whole Gospel
• To the Whole Man